Meghan Jackson is a Central senior tennis player who posted a vastly improved record in her junior year. She is one of the top students at Central and is taking five Advanced Placement classes.

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Central girls tennis coach Don Wafer enters this season with no earthly clue what to expect from No. 2 singles player Meghan Jackson.

The Central senior barely picked up a tennis racket in the offseason, and the frigid temperatures this spring have prevented her from any true outdoor preparation.

Last year, Jackson trained rigorously in the offseason and all of that court time paid off in the form of a winning record. But after her sectional match last spring, she put the racket away, and other than a few brief hitting sessions with some of the boys players in the fall, she devoted her time ...